Goose Island Juliet

Brewed by Goose Island Beer Company (AB-InBev)
Style: Sour Ale/Wild Ale
Chicago, Illinois USA

Serve in Snifter, Tulip, Tumbler

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Bottle poured a red amber color with a little fiz of off white head. Aroma has tart berry, medium acidity, oak, and seedy bitterness. Mouth feell is on the light side and the carbonation medium low. Flavor has quite tart berry, oak, creeping acidity, red grape skin, and some light funk. Quite powerful on the flavors and got more sour as it fully warmed.

Pours a hazy reddish/pink with little white head that dissapear quickly and no lacing. Aroma of small berries, oak, already smell acidic. Taste starts with small berries but then it gets very acitic. Oak is taking some place with some oak tannins. Low body and low carbonation. It has a good taste but the acetic takes too much place. Will take a glass if somebody offers me one but wont buy it.

Received in trade from ajzy, thanks for the opportunity! Pours a lightly hazy deep golden color with a huge fluffy bone white head that that dissipates as quickly as the bubbles in a glass of ginger ale. Tart and funky fruit dominate the aroma here. Lemons, cherries, and berries with lots of lactic sourness and funk make up most of the nose with hints of brown sugar deep in the background. The flavor puckers your face up front with lemons and tart cherries. Light brown sugar malt sneaks in before the citric return and burns a hole deep into your nether region. Medium body with a moderate level of carbonation and a slick tart puckering mouthfeel. Nice American wild, I’m glad I got to try it.

Just incredible!!!! About a year old and extremely offensive and tart. The blackberry didn’t show through a ton however, this is exactly what an American sour should model themselves after

Je débouche la bouteille numéro 1441 en compagnie de Yan et Boul. Le liquide, emballé le 26 janvier 2012, m’apparaît roux. Sa tête qui est plutôt dense au versement, fond rapidement. Le bouquet est bien généreux en notes fruitées surettes, en acidité et en aigreur contrôlée. Des parfums de terre et d’herbes vont et viennent à travers viennent aussi se fondre dans toute ce mouvement funk et boisé. Dès la première gorgée, je sens la présence du tonneau de chêne. Dès la seconde gorgée, je goûte distinctivement les mûres. Il y a aussi d’autres fruits sauvages derrière ces petites baies foncées. Le pamplemousse et les cerises apparaissent dans cette concoction fondamentalement aigre et modérément surette. Sur le palais, une sensation asséchante se dégage de ce corps moyennement dense et presque huileux qui soutient un pétillement à l’humeur changeante. La finale est une intense attaque fruitée et astringente.

Bouteille de 650ml embouteillé le 26 janvier 2012. Quel honneur que de boire cette Juliet 2012 bouteille #1440 merci Patrick. Liquide rouge, saumon foncé avec pas de mousse. Au nez cette bière est un mélange explosif de fruité / boisé. Une touche surette transperce tout comme des notes d’écuries. En bouche c’est acétique, boisé, une sorte de bonbon suret. La final est sur le bois et le vinaigre de framboise. Un classique.

Beautiful crimson color with no head. Big brett, berries, oak and cherries, very very tart nose. The mouth is dry and very tart with berries jumping out all around the place with some oak. Uber well balanced. I couldn’t agree more that this would be a great beer to convert Pinot drinkers over to beer. Wow, very unique. I love this stuff.

Back log. Enjoyed at a tasting with some local beer buddies 2 weeks ago. Strong red wine aroma. Tart-to-sour on the palate with a sticky finish. Decent beer.

Pors ruby-gold into a tulip. White head with little retention recedes to mottle surface. Dark cherry and tart summer berry aromas. Sharp with sour cherry and blackberry upfront turning to oak and lactic tartness in the lasting finish.

2012. pours a dark pinkish hue with lots of bubbles, no head really. Aroma is good and tart, oak vinegar and a bit of berry, good funk factor. Taste is about the same, sweet raspberry for a minute then goes to into tartness with lots of oaky tones, berry and vinegar, dry pucker finish, this is a nice sour, would like to buy another bottle to cellar.